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BEAVERTON, Ore., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Source Development Labs
(OSDL), a global consortium of companies dedicated to accelerating the
adoption of Linux(R), today announced that OSDL Data Center Linux Capabilities
version 1.1 (DCL 1.1) is now available. The new document expands priorities
published last year by the Lab around Data Center Linux in four main areas:
security, hot-plug, clustering, and storage networking.

"There has been tremendous response to DCL since the first version was
released a year ago. Vendors, enterprise end users and developers from around
the world have pulled together to contribute important improvements to DCL,"
said Tim Witham, CTO of OSDL. "The DCL working group continues to connect the
requirements of the enterprise end user with technical resources in the
development community and with the engineering teams of our membership."

The DCL Working Group has also expanded in recent months to include
participation by more international developers, vendors, and end users
including Bull in France, NTT in Japan and Red Flag in China.

"Bull is committed to providing innovative solutions for the data center
on a Linux platform and we wanted to increase our participation in the
important work of OSDL's Data Center Linux Working Group," said Joe Alexander,
director of Strategic Planning at Bull and member of the DCL steering
committee. "We think it is critical that the DCL Capabilities Document
reflects the requirements of customers in all markets around the world."

"Linux is making important strides into the data center in Japan and
elsewhere," said Hitoshi Shibagaki, executive director of NTT. "NTT is working
with OSDL and the development community through DCL to advance the
capabilities for Linux."

"Red Flag is helping business and government in China realize the benefits
of Linux in the data center by participating in DCL with contributions around
local requirements important to our markets," said Chris Zhao, CEO of Red Flag
Software.

Since the release of the DCL 1.0 capabilities document in February of
2004, OSDL identified four priority technology areas important to Linux users,
vendors and the development community at large: security, hot-plug, clustering
and storage. In response to the need to gather input in these areas from the
broadest possible set of contributors, OSDL established a special interest
group (SIG) in each of these four areas. OSDL SIGs are open to anyone
interested in contributing in a specific technology. OSDL membership is not
required for SIG participation. The OSDL SIGs are designed to complement
existing development community forums.

"In the past year we have reached out to global enterprise Linux customers
and to specialists in the broader Linux community to help us better understand
the direction of Linux in the data center," said Steve Geary, chair of the DCL
Working Group and director World Wide Linux and Open Source R&D at HP.
"Customers told us to focus more work on NFS and the new SIGs really stressed
the importance of security to the success of Linux in the data center."

The Lab's new storage SIG, created by interested developers and vendors to
contribute to the DCL, made significant progress in organizing feedback from
enterprise end users on network storage and driving the development and
testing of Network File System (NFS) V4 on Linux for enterprise use. The new
storage SIG also expanded work on volume management and multi-path I/O.

The Lab's new security SIG has attracted some of the leading development
experts on security and Linux, including subsystem maintainer Chris Wright.
The group has built threat profiles for specific computing environments that
are driving new requirements for Linux security in the DCL Capabilities
Document.

The OSDL DCL Capabilities document, available free online from OSDL at
http://www.osdl.org/lab_activities/data_center_linux , is a public reference
blueprint for Linux distributions, major end users or Linux kernel developers
to build Linux kernel features and associated libraries that are required in
the enterprise data center. The definition does not cover data center
applications, which are under development by commercial vendors and open
source project members.

OSDL -- home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux -- is dedicated to
accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux. Founded in 2000 by CA, Fujitsu,
Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel and NEC, OSDL is a non-profit organization at the
center of Linux supported by a global consortium of more than 60 of the
world's largest Linux customers and IT industry leaders. OSDL sponsors
industry-wide initiatives around Linux in telecommunications, in the
enterprise data center and on corporate desktops. The Lab also provides Linux
expertise and computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan
available to developers around the world. Visit OSDL on the Web at
http://www.osdl.org/ . NOTE: OSDL is a registered trademark of Open Source Development Labs,
Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Third party marks and
brands are the property of their respective holders.